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Russian Communist revolution
The events began in Poland in 1989, and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.The Soviet Union was dissolved by the end of 1991.Communism was abandoned in countries such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, and South Yemen. The collapse of Communism (and of the Soviet Union) led commentators to declare the end of the Cold War. -
League of Nations
League of Nations was an international association to keep peace. In 1934, the Soviet Union was added to the League of Nations. They joined because they where fearful of Hitlers rise in Germany. Stalin would have to change his foriegh policy, this would lead to future problems -
Treaty Of Versailles
World War I officially ended with the sighning of The Treaty of Versailles. Negotiated by the allied powers with little participation by germany, it's 15 parts and 440 articles reasigned German boundries and assigned liability for reperations. Germany agreed to pay reparations under the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan, but those plans were cancelled when Hitler rose to power. -
MAD
neither side would attack the other if both sides are guaranteed to be totally destroyed by the other side in the conflict. Both sides would destroy the other side completely and threatened to do so if they got attacked. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the second war time meeting of Winston Churchhill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt. The three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and begin plans for post-war world. Stalin agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian War against Japan. The revelations of this conference became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the Cold War. -
United nations
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict. The two major bodies are the General Assembly and the Security Council. The UN helped us in war. -
Nuremburg Trials
Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremburg Trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremburg, Germany. Including Nazi Party Officials and high- ranking military officers. Relation to cold war due to the Nuremburg trials being held by WWII allied forces. -
General Assembly
As the world began to recover from WW II, the first general assembly of the United Nations met in London. They created the United Nations Atomic Energy Commision: it eliminated all weapons of mass destruction, including the atomic bomb. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Stalin did not intend to keep his word about the support of establishment of governments in Eastern Europe, so Winston Churchill warned of the spread of communism through this speech. We the U.S. were afraid of communisimspreading so we went into a little scare and chaos after the speech. -
Baruch Plan
The United States presents the Baruch Plan for the international control of atomic weapons to the United Nations. The failure of the plan to gain acceptance resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine was a U.S. policy to stop soviet exspansion during the Cold War. President Harry Truman, pledged to contain communism in Europe and impelled the U.S. to support any nation with both military and economic aid if its stability was threatened by communism of the Soviet Union. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was American aid to Europe in which the United States gave $17 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WW II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism. The plan was in operation for 4 years and the United States goals were to rebuild war-devasted regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked all roads, railways, and cut off all electricity power to West Berlin. Stalin wanted to force all allies to leave Berlin, so for 324 days the United States flew cargo planes in and out of West Berlin dropping in supplies they needed to survive. -
NATO creation
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese revolution was shaped by domestic struggles with a long history within China, much more so than by global struggles between two super-systems. Along with struggling with communisim, socialisim, and capitalisim. -
Joseph McCarthey Speech
During the weeks before McCarthy delivered his giant speech, China had fallen to the Communists and the Soviet Union had tested an atomic bomb. McCarthy was afraid that the cold war would influence us to fall into communisim as well. McCarthy gave a speech that propelled him into the national spotlight. Waving a piece of paper in the air, he declared that he had a list of 205 known members of the Communist Party who were “working and shaping policy” in the State Department. -
Korean War
Korean War began when communist Noth Korea invaded South Korea. Immedietly following the attack, the USA secured a resolution from the United Nations calling for the military defense of South Korea against Noth Korea agression. In a matter of days, U.S. land, air and sea forces had joined the battle. The battle ended in a stalemate, United States and North Korea sighned a cease-fire that ended the conflict. The Korean war was the first "hot" war of the Cold War. -
Nuclear Deterrent
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union each built a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Soviet policy rested on the conviction that a nuclear war could be fought and won. The United States adopted nuclear deterrence, the credible threat of retaliation to forestall enemy attack. -
Warsaw Pact
The possibility of further communist exspansion promoted United States and eleven other Western Nations to form NATO. The Soviet Union and its affiliated communist nations in Eastern Europe formed a rival allience, the Warsaw Pact. This formalized the political divison of the European continent that had taken place since WW2. this alignment provided the frameowrk for the military standoff that countinued throughout the Cold War. -
Sputnik launched
Under Khrushchev, the soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite. Four years later we, the U.S. put the first human into space. This was part of the spce race, a big part of the Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
John F. Kennedy planned to overthrow Castro and invade cuba because he feared how close communist Cuba was to the United States. The U.S.A's invasion failed and it made Kennedy and the United States look weak. -
Fidel Castron proclaims Cummunist Cuba
In 1961 Castro proclaimed the socialist nature of his administration, with Cuba becoming a one-party state under Communist Party rule; the first of its kind in the Western hemisphere. Castro conducted Cuba in the Guerrilla war during the cold war. -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War. It was both the division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 till 1986. The Berlin Wall was the boundry between democracy and communism during the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall(any fact in between)
A quarrel between an East German boarder gaurd and an American official on his way to the opera in East Berlin. That day American and Soviet tanks faced off at check point Charley for 16 hours. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. We the U.S and Soviet Union were involved in the cold war during the discovery and bloccade of the missiles. -
USA sends troops to Vietnam
This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam and there was reaction around the world to the new stage of U.S. involvment in the Cold War. Both communist China and Soviet Union threatened to intervene if the U.S. countinued to apply it's military might on behalf of the South Vietnamese. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was an agreement signed in 1968 by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology. Although the NPT did not ultimately prevent nuclear proliferation, in the context of the Cold War arms race and mounting international concern about the consequences of nuclear war, the treaty was a major success for advocates of arms control because it set a precedent for international cooperation -
Appalo 11
The Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. formed the backdrop of the Apollo program, as the two superpowers jockeyed for preeminence in space. -
Kent State Shooting
Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign which President Nixon adressed on April 30th. The students along with other americans just wanted us out of war. This was a mark in the Cold war showing how caught up everyone was in the war. -
SALT I
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks was intended to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons held by the east and west during the Cold War. -
Fall of Saigon
After many years of brutal fighting in Vietnam and the continued lack of public support in the U.S. along with a multitude of other domestic issues, President Richard Nixon was ready to negotiate peace in Vietnam in March of 1972. United States found an excuse to abandon Vietnam. Neither North or South Vietnam was to be stopped by the words on the peace treaty, both determined to fight to the death on the battlefield. The end came two years later with the fall of Saigon. -
Deng Xiaoping
He was the leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. Deng Xiaoping's reascendance to the top leadership at the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Beijing's adoption of economic reform as the highest national priority, and the normalization of China's relationship with the United States. Deng Xiaoping, as a chief architect of China's national strategy in the immediate post-Mao era, played a dominant role in China's decision to go to -
Pope John Paul II
President Reagan and Pope John Paul2 shared strong beliefs about communism during the Cold War. The pope led a campaign for freedom. During his rule he helped people over come communism and served as a witness to hope. -
SALT II
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II was reestablished to solve left over issues from SALT I. -
Margaret Thatcher
When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, many in the West had come to believe that the Cold War could not and should not be won, that anti-Communism was morally wrong, and that the future lay in détente between the superpowers and the evolution of democracy into ever-deepening state socialism. By the time she left office, the Berlin Wall had fallen and Eastern Europe was liberated. A year later, the Soviet Union crumbled into the dustbin of history. Democracy and freedom were on the advance -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immetiatly assumed that they would gain military and political contol of Afghanistan. It was a big event of the Cold War, marking the only time the Soviet Union invaded a country outside the Eastern Bloc -
Fall of Berlin Wall
At midnight on November 9, 1989 East Germanys ruler gave permission to boarder gaurds to let the gates along the wall down in result of mass protesting. Crowds began to destroy the cement wall. This ended the segregation of East and West Berlin. -
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa was a Polish politician, trade union organizer and a humans right activist. He served as president of Poland from 1990-1995. He was persecuted by the communist athorities, placed under survelience, fired from his job, and arrested. -
START I
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty was about the reduction and limitaion of strategic offenzive arms during the cold war. -
START II
was a series of talks between the USA and the Soviet negotiators which cut back the manufacturing of strategic nuclear weapons during the cold war
